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Remove Coffee Stains Naturally

White coffee cup with brown tea stains inside sitting on a saucer on a wooden table.

Got coffee or tea stains in your favorite cups and mugs? Rub a lemon rind sprinkled with salt onto the stains, then wash and rinse. Stains will be gone and cups will look like new.

Shine Chrome Fixtures Quickly and Easily

Polished chrome bathroom faucet with two handles and a curved spout over a white porcelain sink.

Need your bathroom fixtures to look spiffy in a jiffy? Try used dryer sheets! They’ll clean and polish your chrome fixtures — like faucets or shower heads (even the chrome on your car) — just as well as “eraser” sponges. Simply wipe one over your chrome surfaces to get them looking shiny and new in no

Quieter Cabbage

Cooked green cabbage leaves with caraway seeds in a metal saucepan on a wooden surface.

Cabbage is a nutritious and delicious vegetable found in many recipes, but sometimes it produces an unpopular, uncomfortable side effect ….(gas). To help reduce gas production, try boiling cabbage with one or more of these seasonings: dill seeds, whole coriander seed, caraway seeds, rosemary, savory, or sage.

Natural Headache Relief

Woman at a desk rubbing her temples with her eyes closed to soothe a headache.

Got a headache? Try applying a few drops of peppermint oil topically to the forehead and temples. Peppermint essential oil is calming and numbing, and can help alleviate tension headaches and migraines.

Quickly Ripen Bananas For Banana Bread

Slices of homemade banana bread on a wooden table with whole bananas and warm spices.

Want to make banana bread but your bananas aren’t quite ripe enough yet? Use your oven to speed-ripen them! Place unpeeled (but not green) bananas on a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake for 35-40 minutes at 300 degrees F. The peels will turn black, and the fruit will be soft — perfect for banana bread.

Perfect Cookies Every Time

A stack of six chocolate chip cookies rests on a piece of crumpled white parchment paper.

Use parchment paper when baking cookies. It helps them to brown evenly and it eliminates the need for greasing your baking sheets.

Eliminate Bad Car Odor

Dark brown coffee grounds in a clear glass jar with a small silver measuring scoop.

To neutralize bad odors in your car, sprinkle freshly ground coffee on the carpets and seats. Leave it for a few days, then vacuum.

Eliminate Smoke Odor

Three stacked colorful ceramic bowls next to a glass bottle filled with clear white vinegar.

Remove the smell of smoke by placing bowls of white vinegar around the house to absorb the odor.

Open Tough Packaging With Ease

A manual metal can opener with black handles and silver gears on a plain white background.

Break into tough plastic packaging (especially those difficult “clamshell” packages) easily by using a manual can opener. Just line up the can opener along the seam and operate it like you were opening a can.

Make Your Own Cake Flour

Turn all-purpose flour into cake flour instantly to create lighter, more delicious cakes. Simply sift together 3/4 cup all-purpose flour with 2 tablespoons of cornstarch. Do this for every cup of cake flour your cake recipe calls for.

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